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Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #8

Hi friends! Let's take a look at Jeopardy! First Edition Game #8. As before, my goal is to share what I've learned about the clues in this game. Notes are in the order they appear in the original video, which you can find  here . Wikipedia is my primary source for much of this material (so take that with a grain of salt). Jeopardy! Round Categories: Psychiatry, Science Fiction, Thick & Thin, Asia, Walt Disney, "Jack"s of All Trades Psychiatry ($100):  So...one thing I learned after the episode is that a lot of the psychiatry clues from 1987 are kind of controversial today. And lobotomies are no exception. Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949 for his work on lobotomies, but even in the 1950s, they were considered cruel. The Soviet Union banned them in the 1950s. Among the more famous people to have received a lobotomy were John F. Kennedy's sister, Rosemary, Tennessee Williams's sister, Rose, and allegedly, Eva ...